Lorraine Toussaint
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Lorraine Toussaint is a Trinidadian-American actress known for her powerful performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in projects like "Orange Is the New Black" and numerous independent dramas.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lorraine Toussaint canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8538201 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lorraine Toussaint Context triple: [Middle of Nowhere, starring, Lorraine Toussaint]
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A.
Renée Taylor
Renée Taylor is an American actress, comedian, and writer best known for her role as Sylvia Fine, Fran Drescher’s overbearing mother, on the sitcom *The Nanny*.
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B.
Yvette Mitchell
Yvette Mitchell was an early 20th-century actress known for appearing in silent films such as the 1917 production "The Kingdom of Love."
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C.
Lorraine Gary
Lorraine Gary is an American actress best known for playing Ellen Brody in the Jaws film series.
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D.
Alathea Howard
Alathea Howard was an English noblewoman of the early 17th century, best known as the wife of Parliamentarian general Thomas Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
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E.
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke is an American lawyer and trailblazing Democratic politician who was one of the first Black women elected to the U.S. Congress and a prominent advocate for civil rights and social justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lorraine Toussaint Target entity description: Lorraine Toussaint is a Trinidadian-American actress known for her powerful performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in projects like "Orange Is the New Black" and numerous independent dramas.
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A.
Renée Taylor
Renée Taylor is an American actress, comedian, and writer best known for her role as Sylvia Fine, Fran Drescher’s overbearing mother, on the sitcom *The Nanny*.
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B.
Yvette Mitchell
Yvette Mitchell was an early 20th-century actress known for appearing in silent films such as the 1917 production "The Kingdom of Love."
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C.
Lorraine Gary
Lorraine Gary is an American actress best known for playing Ellen Brody in the Jaws film series.
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D.
Alathea Howard
Alathea Howard was an English noblewoman of the early 17th century, best known as the wife of Parliamentarian general Thomas Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
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E.
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke
Yvonne Brathwaite Burke is an American lawyer and trailblazing Democratic politician who was one of the first Black women elected to the U.S. Congress and a prominent advocate for civil rights and social justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
ⓘ
film actress ⓘ human ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1980s ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Trinidad and Tobago
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1960-04-04 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Juilliard School
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Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Afro-Trinidadian ⓘ |
| familyName | Toussaint NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
independent film ⓘ |
| givenName | Lorraine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | 1 daughter ⓘ |
| knownFor | portrayal of Yvonne "Vee" Parker in Orange Is the New Black ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Lorraine Toussaint NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Amelia Boynton Robinson in Selma
NERFINISHED
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Donna Rosewood in Rosewood NERFINISHED ⓘ Rene Jackson in Any Day Now NERFINISHED ⓘ Yvonne "Vee" Parker in Orange Is the New Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Any Day Now
NERFINISHED
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Black-ish NERFINISHED ⓘ Concrete Cowboy NERFINISHED ⓘ Crossing Jordan NERFINISHED ⓘ Dangerous Minds NERFINISHED ⓘ Fast Color NERFINISHED ⓘ Friday Night Lights NERFINISHED ⓘ Hudson Hawk NERFINISHED ⓘ Law & Order NERFINISHED ⓘ Middle of Nowhere NERFINISHED ⓘ Orange Is the New Black NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosewood NERFINISHED ⓘ Saving Grace NERFINISHED ⓘ Selma NERFINISHED ⓘ The Equalizer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fosters NERFINISHED ⓘ The Soloist NERFINISHED ⓘ The Village NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
producer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Trinidad and Tobago NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| spouse | Curtis Peek NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Lorraine Toussaint Description of subject: Lorraine Toussaint is a Trinidadian-American actress known for her powerful performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in projects like "Orange Is the New Black" and numerous independent dramas.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.